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- Governor ____ _______ of Massachusetts Bay colony argued that God intended for some people to be rich and others poor.
- Colonial interest of France and England at the outbreak of the French and Indian War was over the _____ Valley
- The system of _____ labor used during the colonial period enabled the poor to seek opportunity in America.
- The Treaty of Paris (1763) resulted in an expansion of British colonial power in ____ ______ at the expense of France
- _____ won the 1796 presidential election.
- Slaves in Virginia spread rapidly in the late 1600s as blacks displaced white indentured servants in the _____ fields.
- A government favoring settlement of the public land, the trend toward regional economic specialization, and the enthusiasm for land speculation influenced American ____ during the first half of the nineteenth century.
- Early ____ culture developed a calendar, used a numerical system that included a zero and utilized a system of writing.
- There was little manufacturing in the English colonies because England placed ____ on colonies.
- During the War for independence, the reason the American government sought recognition from foreign powers was the purchase of arms and borrowing of _____.
- President Jefferson's main reason authorizing the Lewis and Clark ____ was to advance scientific knowledge.
- The major purpose of England's ______ policy was to increase England's prosperity
- _____ were the paper money printed by the American government to help finance the cost of the war.
- The Mayflower ____ was an agreement reached by the first Pilgrims to constitute themselves as a civil body politic.
- Thomas Jefferson believed that _____ ______'s programs favored wealthy financial interest.
- Harvard College and _____ College, both in the early colonial period, were established to ensure a supply of ministers.
- The Halfway covenant provided for the baptism of children of baptized but _____ puritans
- The ____ of 1800 has been referred to another revolution because the party in power stepped down after losing the election.
- _____ wanted to reform the Church of England by wanting to purify it of Roman Catholic abuses.
- The _____ Rebellion was Washington's response to protesters which sent a clear message that dissent could be expressed only through the constitution system of laws and elections, not through armed rebellion.